New Words : yottabyte



15. yottabyte :



noun :

2 to the power of 80 (approximately 10 to the power of 24) bytes, or a million trillion megabytes



Here are the exact values : 



UNIT      POWER                        ACTUAL BYTES
          OF 2
kilobyte    10                                1,024
megabyte    20                            1,048,576
gigabyte    30                        1,073,741,824
terabyte    40                    1,099,511,627,776
petabyte    50                1,125,899,906,842,624
exabyte     60            1,152,921,504,606,846,976
zettabyte   70        1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424
yottabyte   80    1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176




To put this in some perspective, it would take approximately 86 trillion years to download a 1-yottabyte file, and the entire contents of the Library of Congress would consume a mere 10 terabytes.



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